Watch Angel Olsen’s New “Special” Video

On November 10, Angel Olsen releases a rarities collection called Phases (via Jagjaguwar). Today, she’s shared the music video for “Special,” a track from the recording sessions for last year’s My Woman. Olsen directed and edited the video herself. It’s comprised of moments that Olsen taped during a friend’s visit. Watch the “Special” video below, and scroll down for Angel Olsen’s statement on it. Olsen is still on tour behind My Woman; find her upcoming schedule here. Revisit Pitchfork’s feature “This Woman’s Work: The Many Lives of Angel Olsen.”

Angel Olsen:

My friend came to visit me for a week and I had all these grand ideas
about how to make another video. But it’s been a long year of touring
and videos and pressure to keep on being important or interesting. So
I woke up the next day and changed my mind, deciding it would be best
to just capture the days we were hanging and to occasionally have the
camera up. Those days were some of the hardest and also sweetest of
the summer. We spent much of the time talking about the current state
of affairs and how everyone has been going through tremendous change
and having to make hard choices. Maybe it’s just this year, but it
feels that we’re entering a new era, one that requires us to really
pay more attention to the world and ourselves in it. What I realized
is that going through a hard time and talking about it with friends
makes you feel your friendships and who you are, and sometimes it
takes a weird year to recognize what you still have.